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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1922)
, S°cV^1 The Frontier. ~ - ■* • ’—“— -* “ ■ ■ ---.- -■ -■ ■ ■ VOLUME XUI. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1922. NO. 26. Groceries YVE HAVE A FULL LINE OF ROTH FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES (Phone 118) % Zimmerman & Son O’Neill, Nebraska _ . \ LOCAL MATTERS. J 0. Hubbell, landlord of the Golden Hotel spent a few days with relatives at Atkinson last week. Mrs. Elizabeth Mack was in Atkin son last week visiting at the home of her son E. J. and family. The Atkinson Graphic is installing a radio receiving set in their office for the benefit of the community in gen eral. Atkinson Graphic: Miss Lila Stuck enholtz, who is teaching at O’Neill, ^pent Saturday and Sunday with her uncle, Ed Schindler and family. Orchard News: Mrs. W. E. Butler and daughter, Mrs. Ira Napier, return ed to O’Neill Friday where they had been visiting Mrs. Carrie Taylor. Mrs. H. B. Hubbard went to Lincoln last Friday where she will visit until after Thanksgiving with her daughter Fern, who is attending the university. Stuart Advocate: George and Charles* Comstock, of Madrid, Iowa, arrived in Stuart Monday night to visit their mother, Mrs. Walter Hunt, who is seriously ill. Stuart Advocate: Friends of Frank Holderberg who is visiting in Europe, received post cards, stating that he had a fine trip and is having the best of everything that life affords. * Orchard News: Mrs. N. S. Hendrick and children stopped over in Orchard Tuesday night on their way to Os mond where the family is moving. Their car went down Wednesday morning. Francis Cronin is in Lincoln attend ing the Thanksgiving football game today between the university team and the team from Notre Dame, Indiana. Francis will visit in Omaha before re turning home. The Woman’s Christian Temper ance Union will hold a mothers’ meet ing with Mrs. Nora Pine Tuesday after noon, December 15th, at 1 o’clock. Every mother should be there. Mrs. Pine will lead. Mrs. Henry Burival was completely surprised on Wednesday evening of last week when a large number of her friends and relatives gathered at her home nine miles northwest of O’Neill, to assist her in celebrating her forty third birthday anniversary. The even ing was spent at cards and other games. Luncheon was served by the visiting neighbors at a late hour. The Ladies of the Presbyterian church will hold a bazaar and food ex change at the Golden hotel December 9th. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Dishner expect to go to Lincoln Friday for a short visit. George Bressler purchased the C. W. Kay clothing stock which was sold at bankrupt sale last Thursday at Oakdale. The stock has been brought to O’Neill and has been added to the regular stock at»the Bressler store. State Engineer George E, Johnson will become the permanent secretary of the state capitol commission at a salary of $5,000 a year beginning the frst of next year’. Engineer Johnson announced several days ago he wras not a candidate for re-appointment as state engineer. The old city scales have been re moved from the street east of the Gal lagher store. The ditch across the street just east of the scales has been filled, and the street will be graded so as to carry away the surplus water. The filling- of the ditch across the j street will be greatly appreciated by auto drivers. Orchard News: A deal was closed Ibis week between Jacob Steffenson, north of town, and a Mr. Stein, of O’Neill, whereby the former becomes the owner of the west garage ot O'Neill and the latter got the Steffen son farm two miles north of this place. The transfer will be made about the first of February when the Steffenson family will move to O’Neill and oper ate the garage and Mr. Stein will go west for his health, renting his farm. The Independent last week in the whimpering tone of a spanked child caught with the goods attempts to apologise to its readers for its cam paign of misrepresentation wherein it sougld to induce its readers to believe that bridges on the federal road north ot O’Neill were paid for out of the county bridge fund. It now admits that the bridges were paid for by the state, complaining however that the board did not let the fact become known. For two weeks after the board by means of 'publication of photo graphs of the state warrant and the letter accompanying it showed the falsity of the Independent's assertions to the contrary, that newspaper con tinued to cry liar and sought to de ceive its readers. ’’t’he apology al though late is accepted. GRADY’S GROCERY PURITAN BACON | BARRINGTON HALL COFFEE LETTUCE. CELERY. FRUIT. CASH PAID FOR EGGS (Phones—68—126) O’Neill, Nebraska Miss Bessie McLeod is visiting with friends in Lincoln this week. T. P. Mullen, of Elgin, was visiting in O’Neill several days during the past week. Miss Rose Taylor, one of the teach ers of the public school, is visiting with relatives in Tilden. Miss Roskoff, one of the high school teachers, is spending the Thanksgiv ing vacation at her home in Norfolk. Mrs. John Carr went to Norfolk Tuesday morning to spend Thanks giving with her daughter, Mrs. Richard L. Jordon and family. A marriage license was issued on Wednesday, November 22nd, to Joseph Walters, of Clearwater, and Miss Vera Schonebaum, of Atkinson. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Stout went to Lincoln Wednesday and will spend Thanksgiving with their daughter Demaris, who is attending the uni versity. William Benjamin Haigh, of Atkin son, and Miss Mable Marie Coker, of Stuart, were married by Rev. George Longstaff at the Presbyterian manse last Saturday. Miss Cecelia Kloke, of Norfolk, was a guest of Mrs. P. B. Harty over Sun day. Miss Kloke sang a beautiful solo at the Knights of Columbus banquet Sunday evening. A number of O’Neill football en thusiasts expect to be in Lincoln to day to see the Uni.-Notre Dame game. Among them are: Edward O’Donnell, John Mullen, Hugh Birmingham, Geo. Harrington and Donald Gallagher. Mrs. Devine entertained a number of lady friends at a seven o’clock din ner at the Subway followed by bridge at the home of her father, Frank Campbell, Thursday evening of last week. Mrs. Clarence Campbell won the high score prize. Miss Bridget Carr was hostess to twenty-eight guests at a seven o’clock dinner followed by Monte Carlo whist, at her home on west Douglas street last Thursday evening. Miss Irenaeia Biglin won the high score prize and Mrs. P. B. Harty won the all-cut. The second annual celebration of Education Week will be observed at St. Mary’s Academy beginning Sun day at 2:30 p. m., with daily programs at this hour continuing throughout the week. The friends and patrons of the academy are cordially invited. Mrs. Anna Horacek, of Chambers, was before the county court last Thursday upon complaint of Mrs. Cora Thompson, also of Chambers, who claimed that the defendant was threat ening her life. After hearing the evi dence in the case County Judge Ma lone placed the defendant under a peace bond. Superintendent and Mrs. Suhr and E. J. Schmidt of the high school will drive to Lincoln in time to see the university-Notre Dame football game today. Mr. Schmidt is a graduate of NotreDame and is a strong rooter for that team while Superintendent and Mrs. Suhr are Uni. graduates and are strong for their alma mater. ‘Gene Huse ,of Norfolk, will deliver an address at the Royal theater Sat urday evening, under the auspices of the Woman’s Club, on his recent trip to Europe. There will be no charge, Mr. Hughes will be entertained at din ner at the Golden Hotel preceding the address and afterwards S. J. Weekes will give a smoker in his honor. John Flannigan, of Stuart, was chosen chairman and James F. O’Don nell of this city secretary at a meet ing of eighteen state bankers of tlii3 territory at the Nebraska State bank Monday evening, called to consider the affairs of the South Fork State bank of Chambers, which closed last week. The bankers all are members of the state agricultural loan association. A committee composed of E. J. Mack, cashier of the Security State bank of Atkinson; J. L. Fisher, president of the Ewing State bank of Ewing and Wm. Lailey, cashier of the Emmet State bank of Emmet, was appointed to examine into the affairs of the closed bank and to recommend a re ceiver. An examination of the paper held by the bank is to be made, with'a view to its re-opening with new capi tal interested. A dispatch from Washington, D. C., appearing in the World Herald of No vember 5, contained items of the cam paign expense accounts of various candidates for United States senator. Among the senators who filed their expense accounts in Washington as required by law was Senator Piotrna*', dcmoeiat, of Nevada. Senator Pitt man lists among his disbursements $3,125 to the democratic state central committee, $100 to the democratic national committee and $625 to Mrs. Antionette Funk, “a campaign speaker.” Senator Hitchcock’s ex nense account has not been published. Mrs Funk is the speaker who declar ed here that hers was a labor of love and that she received no remuneration whatever for speaking in the recent campaign. Senator Pittman’s cam paign expense account was sworn to. Deputy Sheriff Clarence Bergstrom accompanied Melvin Backes to the penitentiary at Lincoln Tuesday morn ing, where he will serve from one to twenty years. Backes is the fellow who recently iplead guilty to abduct ing Pearl, fifteen year old daughter of Mrs. Margaret Crum, who resides on the Niobrara river. Backes is a mar ried man. He and his wife were mak ing their home with Mrs. Crum, who vras his wife’s mother. Backes be came infatuated with his fifteen year old sister-in-law and induced her to elope with him. The wife became sus picious of her husbands action after the disappearance of the girl and the finding of a couple of love notes, and notified the authorities. The couple were located at Bristow occupying the same room at one of the hotels. They were brought to O’Neill where Backes admitted the crime and received his sentence. | A. M. Vos*, the champion checker I player of Nebraska, was badly de ■ feated by the local enthusiasts at the checker club, during Mr. Voss' visit to [ O’Neill last week. A number of 1 matches were played, in each event the local players showed wonderful im provement over their former playing as they won almost all of the games played. Tom Enright is preparing for a grand re-opening of his remodeled soft drink parlors and social club iust as soon as Martin Cronin and Sliver Triggs have completed the mural dec orations. The new place will be one of the finest between Chicago and the Rocky Mountains and the opening pro gram eomV>rises a big feed, with fried chicken and everything. Speeches are to be made by prominent citizens. The supreme court of Nebraska has confirmed the sentence of one to five years in the penitentiary imposed upon Frank Ilallet who was convicted of as saulting Clifford Penn principal of the school at Lynch. The case was tried before Judge Robert R. Dickson in the district court held at Lynch last sum mer. Hallet is out on bond awaiting the action of the supreme court and will no doubt be brought back at once from Idaho where he has been work ing for the past few months. A auto belonging to Nels Lund strom, of Ewing, was stolen from his barn about, eignt o’clock on Monday evening of last week, and at the time the theft was discovered, a horse be longing to Pat Boyle, of Chambers, was found tied in the barn. James Boyle, aged about sixteen and Leo Porter, aged about seventeen, were supposed to have been riding the horse and looking for work. No trace of the boys have been discovered since the finding of their horse. The nuto was found abandoned about four miles south of Clearwater and was some what out of repair. MRS. GUNTHORPE ABLE . TO RETURN HOME Mrs. J. F. Gunthorpe, and Miss Mar jorie, of Plainview, who were quite badly injured in an auto accident while on a pleasure trip to the Pacific covst last summer, have sufficiently re cvered to be able to return home. Mrs. Gunthorpe is the daughter of Mrs. Welton of this city. The Plainview News of last week has the following to say in regard to them: “J. F. Gunthorpe went to Grand Is land Tuesday where he met his wife and daughter on their return trip from San Bernardino, California, where they have been in the hospital since their accident last July. Marjorie has fully recovered from her injuries and Horiskev GROCERY ■* Apple Butter, per can.15c Pickled Pigs Feet, per jar..40c irrmrt Lobsters, per can.40c Pimentos, per can..25c * qnrrif Cavier, per can .50c fnrmj Kitchen Boquet, per jar 45c J. C. Horiskey Mrs. Gunthorpe is now able to get around some on crutches, making the trip home very nicely. It has been six teen weeks since the accident and dur ing the past few weeks since they left the hospital, they have been staying at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Ulrich, former resident of Plainview and old time friends of our family, re gaining sufficient strength to make the trip home. They were indeed fortu nate to have these friends there and their kindness will always be remem bered by us. Members of both the Masonic and Eastern Star lodges were also very kind to the folks during their stay in that city.” TI1E HIGH SCHOOL THANKSGIVING PROGRAM The High School presented the fol lowing program on Wednesday after noon : Selection by School Orchestra. High School Song accompanied by Orchestra Reading . Edna HaroiBh Violin Solo .Ruth Scott Folk Dance . Kindergarten Reading . Hazel Ashton Piano Solo . Miss Ward Thanksgiving Song .School Selection . Orchestra Santa Glaus -AT The Xmas Store Crying Mamma Dolls Sleeping Dolls Doll Cabs Little Tables and Chairs For the Little Tots. Also Tinker Toys and Blocks. Wagons and Sleds. Watches and Knives with Chains. Books. Puzzles. Games. Steam Engines and Friction Toys and Everything. “Ra^dio Rex” A The Latest Sensation. See It At “Bowen's” Racket Store
